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Johnson breaks with Tradition; $10mn IFEX hurricane trade; WRMA heads to Oz
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Insurance entrepreneur Neil Eckert is enacting a management buy-out of the catastrophe derivative trading platform IFEX, Trading Risk understands.
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Quake products are leading the rise in industry loss warranty (ILW) prices, with California prices up by two thirds in the wake of the catastrophic 11 March Japanese earthquake, Trading Risk understands.
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Industry loss warranty (ILW) prices have risen 20 to 30 percent on average after a string of catastrophe losses this year, broker Aon Benfield says in its latest reinsurance market outlook report.
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Between $50mn and $100mn of Japanese earthquake industry loss warranties (ILW) traded shortly after the 11 March catastrophe that struck northeastern Japan, Trading Risk can reveal.
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International (re)insurers are now facing a loss bill of $12bn as the scale of the devastation in Christchurch, New Zealand became apparent last month.
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Almost $50mn of additional "cold-spot" industry loss warranties (ILWs) have traded in 2011 in the wake of losses in Australia and New Zealand, Trading Risk has learned.
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I'm too young to remember the infamous London smogs of the 1950s, or pea-soupers, as the impregnable clouds of coal, industrial emissions and Thames-borne fog were nicknamed.
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Almost $50mn of additional "cold-spot" industry loss warranties (ILWs) have traded in 2011 in the wake of losses in Australia and New Zealand, Trading Risk has learned.
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Billion dollar losses from New Zealand are again likely for the reinsurance community after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Christchurch, killing at least 65 people.
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The ILW market is becoming increasingly bespoke... In our regular quarterly review of the sector, Willis Re executive director Henry Kingham looks at ILW trading drivers.
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As Cyclone Yasi made landfall on Australia's Queensland coast as a Category 4 storm on 3 February, brokers transacted livecat industry loss warranty (ILW) deals for traders seeking to hedge against losses.
